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Ireland’s most innovative healthcare practitioners are being encouraged to enter projects to be in with a chance of scooping awards at the unique and prestigious health literacy awards, writes Lloyd Mudiwa.

Gary Culliton spoke with UCC’s Dr Bridget Maher about her Crystal Clear award-winning entry, which uses a mobile app to improve the quality of hospital discharge letters.

With doctors increasingly required to work in partnership with patients, Dr Paul Heslin examines the argument for health coaching becoming the new paradigm.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Healthcare professionals nationwide have been acknowledged for improving patient communication at the recent Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards, Irish Medical Times reports.

A recent European Health Literacy conference showed some reasons to be cheerful for Ireland, but also some worrying results from the first European Health Literacy Survey.

Findings from the first EU Health Literacy Survey revealed a disconcertingly low level of health literacy among the Irish population.